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Steelmaking along the Meuse at Ougrée, near Liège. The sillon industriel was the first fully industrialized area in continental Europe, [2] experiencing its first industrialisation wave from 1800 to 1820. [3]
The Meuse rises in Pouilly-en-Bassigny, commune of Le Châtelet-sur-Meuse on the Langres plateau in France from where it flows northwards past Sedan (the head of navigation) and Charleville-Mézières into Belgium. [13] At Namur it is joined by the Sambre. Beyond Namur the Meuse winds eastwards and passes Liège before turning north.
The city is situated in the valley of the Meuse, in the east of Belgium, not far from borders with the Netherlands (Maastricht is about 33 km (20.5 mi) to the north) and with Germany (Aachen is about 53 km (32.9 mi) north-east). In Liège, the Meuse meets the river Ourthe.
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Ardennes is part of the Ardennes, a plateau deeply cut by the Meuse and its many tributaries which reach into Wallonia in Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany , and the north of the neighbouring department of Meuse. Covering 5,229 square kilometres (2,019 square miles), the department was the smallest among the four contributors to Champagne-Ardenne ...
The modern borders of the province of Liège date from 1795, which saw the unification of the Principality of the Prince-Bishopric of Liège with the revolutionary French Department of the Ourthe (sometimes spelled Ourte). (Parts of the old Principality of Liège also went into new French départements Meuse-Inférieure, and Sambre-et-Meuse.)
The Port of Liège is a Belgian inland port in Liège in the Province of Liège in Wallonia at the Meuse river and at the Albert Canal in the heart of Europe. Liège is the third largest inland port in Europe after Duisburg and Paris. It also has direct links to Antwerp and Rotterdam via its canals. Stretching over a distance of 26 kilometers ...
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